Beating the Boston Bruins has not only proven to be extremely difficult for the rest of the National Hockey League this season, but doing so apparently makes the B’s very angry.

Since the Seattle Kraken handed the B’s their first regulation loss at the Garden on Jan. 12, the B’s have ripped off five straight victories by a combined score of 21-5.

Their latest victim was the San Jose Sharks at the Garden on Sunday, when they showed just how big of a gap there is between them and those teams like the Sharks who are in the Connor Bedard sweepstakes. The B’s got goals from four different players  to beat the Sharks, 4-0, and improve their record to 37-5-4.

“Man, it’s a lot of fun showing up for work every night,” said Charlie McAvoy. “You really feel like you can win very night and I think everyone brings out the best in each other. It’s something you really want to savor because it’s really something special we’ve got going.”

And the B’s back end continued to step up offensively. They got two spectacular goals from Hampus Lindholm and McAvoy to give the B’s blue line seven goals in the last five games.

“When we played Seattle, in our meeting in the morning, we were talking about their D corps and I think they were first in the league in goals scored. So then that kind of got us wondering ‘Where are we in that?'” said McAvoy. “We kind of put a little onus on ourselves. Let’s try and be dangerous when we can and contribute. Everyone has it in their game and it really means a lot to the forwards when we’re able to contribute. Good things happen. So it’s been nice to see this stretch wehre everyone’s getting involved and scoring big goals.”

Linus Ullmark (17 saves) improved his record to 25-2-1 and became the goalie who has needed the fewest decisions to reach 25 wins in NHL history. With the B’s playing most of the game in the offensive zone, the most difficulty Ullmark had came in the third period when he lost  a skate blade and had to survive a few hairy minutes before his teammates could get a stoppage in play and he could go to the bench for repairs. Jeremy Swayman had to step in for him and made one save on Matt Nieto on a partial breakaway before handing the baton back to Ullmark to finish the clean sheet.

“It was weird and I had no real thought process on what I needed to do,” said Ullmark, who was left basically helpless on the ice without a blade.”I was just happy that they didn’t shoot.”

Ullmark did stay more calm than Tuukka Rask did when the same thing happened to him on the playoffs in Tampa Bay a few years ago.

“Tuukka, if I remember right, he launched the skate blade, which is an all-timer. You can put that on Tuuk’s highlight reel,” said McAvoy.

It was the B’s last game at the Garden until they play the Washington Capitals on Feb. 11, and they made sure their fans were left with fond thoughts of them.

The game started oddly, with Brandon Carlo and Timo Meier deciding they didn’t like each other on the first shift of the game. The two dropped the gloves with Meier eventually wrestling the lanky Carlo to the ice. It was the Sharks’ highlight of the evening.

After that, the B’s appeared ready to gut the drowning Sharks like everyone expected them to in the first period when they skated circles around them – quite literally.

The B’s took a 1-0 lead on Lindholm’s sixth of the year. Brad Marchand got the play started when he took not one but two tours around the San Jose zone before finally dropping it back to Lindholm at the left point. The defenseman walked the blue line to his right before throwing a move that left Shark Michael Eyssimont in his ice chips out high in the zone. Creating a clear shot from the inside hash marks, Lindholm buried it over James Reimer’s blocker for the 1-0 lead at 7:16. It was the sixth goal scored by a Bruin defenseman in the past five games.

McAvoy did his best to steal Lindholm’s thunder in the second.

On a 4-on-4, David Pastrnak dropped a pass for McAvoy at the Boston blue line and simply got out of his way. McAvoy hit the San Jose zone with speed, played the puck through Meier, took advantage of some defensive indifference from Mario Ferraro and beat Reimer with a pretty backhand-forehand move for his fourth of the year at 4:08.

“Nah, I wasn’t trying to one-up (Lindholm),” said McAvoy with a laugh. “He had a sick goal and he’s a really special player. I got kind of lucky when it bounced back to me. But it all worked out. That was a fun one.”

The 3-0 lead was gained the old fashioned way. The fourth line, which had been perhaps the B’s best line to that point, won puck after puck on the cycle before Nick Foligno eventually deflected home a Lindholm shot at 7:46 for his seventh of the season. Joona Koppanen, who looked like he was determined to hold down the 4C spot while Tomas Nosek is out with a broken foot, picked up the secondary helper for his first NHL point.

Pastrnak added his team-high 36th goal at 2:40 of the third on the power play and the only thing left to accomplish was securing the shutout. They did so in unconventional fashion but, as usual, the B’s attained their goal.